2024-01-01 13:20:24
RBB-Funk’s adult station, Radio eins, offers its listeners a new, monthly two-hour program in the chatting and relaxing segment. The title “Up and Down” is a bit misleading, as one thinks of steep theses, arguments and political incorrectness. After listening to the first broadcast, which will be broadcast on January 1st at 7 p.m., it can be ruled out that the two protagonists are blindly grabbing any hot items or even chasing themselves around the studio with them. Instead, in a safe space atmosphere of fraternal affection, there is a lot of raving, a bit of grumbling, wondering, making observations and quickly dismissing them again.
The film and theater director, actor and harmonica player Leander Haußmann (born in Quedlinburg in 1959) and the musician, Element of Crime founder and writer Sven Regener (born in Bremen in 1961) have been cultivating a fruitful East-West relationship for years. Friendship and have already enriched the world with some common achievements.
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Regener makes music for Haußmann’s plays, Haußmann makes films from Regener’s books, and every now and then they write together (from the action film “Shark Alarm at Müggelsee” to the Bob Dylan memorial evening “The Thank You” to the patchwork theater comedy “Intervention!”) and all of it There has always been the enjoyment of an unbreakable friendship between men, forged and cooled in canteens. You share similarities, wonder about the present, look at your youth with gentleness and even more mildly, almost with joy, at your own imperfections.
The latter is a recurring theme in the freely associated conversation, which was exceptionally recorded for the first episode of “Um Kopf und Collar” so that the Berliner Zeitung was able to listen in. This is how we learn about Haußmann’s attention deficit disorder and his dyscalculia, and about the fact that he not only doesn’t have a driver’s license, but also has a poor command of foreign languages. Maybe he likes chatting so much because he doesn’t even know how to do skat.
Of course, it’s comforting when Regener describes him as the number one harmonica player in Germany – it doesn’t work without some lofty theses. But that doesn’t help much if you packed the instrument with the wrong key, says Haußmann. If you play wrong, says Regener, then you play loudly so that everyone thinks you mean it.
Is that what the show means? The head-and-collar concept of the title, which the gentlemen modestly link to Arno Schmidt’s “Longer Thought Game” and Heinrich von Kleist’s “On the gradual production of thoughts when speaking,” loses the last remnants of tension when recorded may not be entirely avoidable during a live performance. But even so, there are enough slips of the tongue, lost associations, pointless digressions, petty vanities that fizzle out without complaint, and harmless nitpicking.
The loose keyword framework is formed by the records that the two bring with them and play. We get to hear Eagles of Death Metal, Peter, Paul and Mary, Thees Ullmann’s “What becomes of Hannover” and Juliette Gréco’s “Le petit poisson”, which, to Haußmann’s surprise, is not about poison at all, but about a fish, as Regener gently clarifies. Also wonderful is Dolly Parton’s tender and whining-free original recording of “I Will Always Love You”, which was almost forgotten behind Whitney Houston’s cover version with the most powerful coloratura in pop history. Also beautiful, but too perfect.
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